Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association June 8, 1994, Volume 3 1, Number 23 Committee wants more time to study I-A football pl .ayoff The NCAA Special Committee statistics and history,” Young said to Study a Division I-A Football at the conclusion of the commit- Championship has concluded tee’s June 2-3 meeting in Kansas that while merit exists for the City, Missouri. “Our extensive dis- concept of a playoff, the commit- cussions of those data have tee cannot at this time recom- brought up many complex issues mend specific legislation to the and concerns that demand fur- NCAA Presidents Commission ther consideration.” and NCAA Council. Young said he believes that Charles E. Young, chancellor conflicts relating to a playoff can of the University of California, be resolved, although he said the Los Angeles, and chair of the spe- committee has not had enough %Q cial committee, said the commit- time to address the issues satisfac- f tee proposes further study of torily or to discuss the matter ade- g issues that time constraints pre- quately with member institutions, 5 vented it from addressing ade- student-athletes and other inter- 3 quately during its two meetings. ested parties. The June 2-3 meet- “The special committee has ing was the second for the special committee which also met in spent con?derable.time. and ear,y May. i,, January through Charles E. Young, chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, and chair of the NCAA effort studytng and discussing a @&alx Committee to Study a Division I-A Football Championship, speaks to membersof the media significant amount of data, at a news conferenceJune 3 in Kansas City, Missouri. - - including hundreds of pages of See Phydf, page 16 b CFA seeks new division * of power in I-A football ByRondd D.Moti Former NCAA President Albert M. Witte, THE NCAA NEWS STAFF professor of law and faculty athletics repre- sentative at the University of Arkansas, DALLAS - Realignment of NCAA Fayetteville, said that in order for Division Division I-A and a possible football playoff I-A institutions to gain more control over for the division were the dominant themes their athletics programs’ future, those insti- of the College Football Association’s annu- tutions must make a vocal pitch for realign- al meeting June 3-5. ment. A group of faculty athletics representa- “We want to control our own destiny,” tives attending the meeting voted for CFA Witte said. “The problem is (that) we don’t sponsorship of proposals at the 1995 say who ‘we’ is. Who decides who makes us NCAA Convention that would enact a the ‘we?’ Somebody in I-A has to make a Division I-A commissioners’ proposal for commitment that we know who ‘we’ is. restructuring and a “Division IV’ proposal Who’s in? Who’s out? That, I think, is a big giving Division I-A institutions more auton- problem. omy over matters relating to football. “If I-A wants to control its own destiny, a “Division IV would have control over the large percentage of I-A chancellors must football programs,” Daniel G. Gibbens, strongly endorse restructuring. Secondly, professor of law and faculty athletics repre- they should present their ideas as non- sentative at the University of Oklahoma, negotiable: Take it or leave it” Repeat winner said during a panel discussion entitled “It is time for this group of people to take “NCAA Restructuring.” “What we really are charge,” said Eugene F. Corrigan, com- Gillian Russell of the University of Miami (Florida) won her second straight talking about when we talk about control is missioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference. lO@metm hurdles title at th NCAA Division I Women? Outdoor Track and money. The old Division IV proposal has “Since we’re the ones putting the most into Field Championships June l-4 at Boise State University. Seechampionships some interesting features to it. The group it..the time has come for us to take our role coverage,page 6. that will be in control will be us - the schools that are generating the money.” See CFA, page 10 ) L W In the News n On deck News Digest Page2 n Ten studentathletes out of 3,544 tested were ruled June8 Special Committee to Review Student-Athlete ineligible as the result of positive NCAA drug test in Welfare, Access and Equity, Salt Lake City Briefly 3 a fall 1993: Page 3. June9 Special Committee to Study Rules Federation Comment 4 n NCAA Executive Director Cedric W. Dempsey is by Sport, Atlanta Summer events among 17 longtime athletics administrators honored for June 12-15 Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee, Administrative administrative achievement by the Notional Association Kansas City, Missouri Committee minutes of Collegiate Directors of Athletics: Page 10. June 13-l 5 Eligibility Committee, Newport, Rhode Island NCAA Record H The Oklahoma legislature passes a resolution that June 14-17 Committee on Competitive Safeguards and The Market asks the U.S. Congress to prohibit the Association Medical Aspects of Sports, from requiring Divisions I and II studentathletes to use Legislative assistance 16 . Mackinac Island, Michigan the NCAA Initial-Elrgrbrlrty Clearinghouse: paSe 16. Page 2 The NCAANew June 8, 1994 TheNCAAN ews A weekly summary of major activities within the Association uled for June 13 has been canceled, and the next meeting of that group now is scheduled for September 12 in Kansas City, Missouri. Committee to seek more dchedule of keydates for The committee provides a means by which time to assess playoff f constituent groups can communicate with June and July 1994 the Presidents Commission. The committee The NCAA Special Committee to Study a includes five members of the Commission, Division I-A Football Championship has pro- as well as two athletics directors, two faculty posed further study of issues that time con- athletics representatives and two senior straints prevented it from addressing ade- woman administrators. quately during its two meetings. Staff contact: Francis M. Canavan. Charles E. Young, chancellor of the Uni- Next meeting: September 12 in Kansas versity of California, Los Angeles, and chair City, Missouri. of the special committee, said he believes that conflicts relating to a playoff can be re- solved. However, he said the committee has not had enough time to address the issues satisfactorily or to discuss the matter ade- Oklahoma resolution seeks quately with member institutions, student- elimination of clearinghouse athletes and other interested parties. Young’s comments came at the conclusion JUNE 8-3 1 ._. _____ ____ _._______ _______ Evaluation period. The Oklahoma Legislature passed a res- of a June 2-3 meeting in Kansas City, Mis- RECRUITING Men’s Division II baskehll olution May 2’7 that asks the U.S. Congress &n’s Division I basketball souri. He said there is little likelihood of foot- l-3 1 ______________ _________ ______ Evaluation period. to prohibit the NCAA f&m requiring student- l-30 . Quiet period. Women’s Division II basketball’ ball-playoff legislation at the January NCAA athletes to use a clearinghouse to establish Women’s Division I basketball’ l-3 1 . ._._______._.._Evaluation period. Convention; instead, the committee, which initial eligibility in Divisions I and II sports. l-30 _________ __ _____ __ __ __ __ ____ _______ Quiet period. Division I too&all was to have been dissolved at the conclusion Men’s Division II baskdball A concurrent resolution also was approved 1-31 . Quiet period. of this meeting, will ask the NCAA Joint Pol- l-1 4 __._.___........................... Quiet period. asking other state legislatures to recommend Division II foolball icy Board for an extension at the policy 1530 ______________________.... Evo(uotion period. to Congress that it prohibit the clearing- June 1 through beginning of the prospect’s board’s June 26-27 meeting in Kansas City. Women’s Division II bask&all’ house. high-school or two-year college football sea- Assuming such an extension is granted, 1-14 . Quiet period. An $18 charge that is required of each stu- son: Quiet period. Young said a task force of the special com- 15-30 ________________.__......Evaluation period. dent-athlete registering with the clearing- l-30 ________ ______ ______________.._.. Quiet period. mittee’s members would be assembled to DEADLINES house has been the most criticized part of Divisioll I foobll 1 - Deadline for constituent groups to request study related issues before the full commit- l-30 . .._........ Quiet period. the clearinghouse arrangement and has led on appearance before the NCAA Presidents tee reconvenes. Division II foolball some - including State Rep. Gary Bastin, Commission Liaison Committee’s September For more information, see the May 25, June 1 through beginning of the prospect’s the sponsor of the Oklahoma resolution - May 11, April 20, March 23 and March 2 is- high-school or tweyear college football sew 12 meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. to conclude that the NCAA is profiting from sues of The NCAA News. son: Quiet period. lS- 1995 Convention proposols due from the program. the membership. Staff contact: Thomas W. Jernstedt. MAluNG Ilowevcr, the Association contributes 24 - Checks to be mailed for academic+n- MAIUNG about $500,000 annually to the operation of honcement fund of 1993-94 NCAA revenue 29 -Checks to be mailed for the specialas the clearinghouse, which (based on regis- distribution plan. sistance fund of the 1993-94 NCAA revenue JULY tration by about 100,000 athletes) is estimat- RECRUlllNG distribution plan. ed to cost about $2.3 million annually to op- Committee to recommend h’s Division I baskehall erate. new initial-eligibility rule 14 .